{"id":742,"date":"2008-05-02T18:19:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2008-05-02T18:19:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T15:19:16","slug":"directly-proportional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/02\/directly-proportional","title":{"rendered":"The number of events and screw-ups is directly proportional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a lot of things happen, a lot can go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Today I went to my new apartment to clean up and receive deliveries. Eventually I noticed that the kitchen sink leaked. Remember <!--permalink:737:my earlier mishaps with the kitchen sink-->? That&#8217;s right: they fixed the trash bins but broke the pipes. So, now I have a leaking sink and when I called the manager (or whatever), they had closed for the day. I didn&#8217;t call any on-call number because this isn&#8217;t an emergency just yet. Luckily, I have no hurry (except an emotional one) to move.<\/p>\n<p>And as if I hadn&#8217;t had enough problems with the furniture company\/sales person, the delivery was missing a chair and the mattress wasn&#8217;t the sort of mattress it was supposed to be. When I tried to call them, none of the numbers answered. (It&#8217;s this time of the year &#8212; yesterday was a holiday and Fridays are probably always bad to do business&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_rolleyes.gif\" alt=\":roll:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, at least I got my telly (didn&#8217;t test drive it yet, hopefully it&#8217;s not broken) and other gadgets. Table and chairs need assembling but at least I have them; most of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a lot of things happen, a lot can go wrong. Today I went to my new apartment to clean up and receive deliveries. Eventually I noticed that the kitchen sink leaked. Remember ? That&#8217;s right: they fixed the trash bins but broke the pipes. So, now I have a leaking sink and when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}